Look at a satellite map of tropical cyclones and you'll notice something odd. The big spiraling storms cluster on either side of the equator, but almost none of them ever pass straight across it.

If a dangerous asteroid were headed toward Earth, one defense could be a nuclear detonation to blast one side with X-rays and ...

It's unclear at the moment exactly when and where the Swift observatory will plunge to Earth. But researchers definitely have ...

NASA's Swift Observatory burned up this week. And while the agency has a lot of experience losing beloved hardware, it never gets easier.

In December 2009, a week before the much-heralded Copenhagen climate summit, a full-page advertisement in The New York Times ...

Animals like sea turtles, salmon, pigeons, and sharks can use Earth's magnetic field to cross entire oceans. How can they tap ...

For nearly 90 years, scientists believed magnetism fell into just two categories, but researchers have now confirmed a ...

Gas and dust also fall directly into the clouds, along with streams of matter called cosmic filaments. Together, clouds and ...

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Rocks in the asteroid belt rotating at ultra-fast speeds suggest our understanding of asteroid structure might be wrong ...

Uranium anomalies chiefly align with the NE-SW trending Grease River Shear Zone and corroborate previous ground findings while thorium/ (REE) enrich zones dominate the SW and SE margins of the claim ...